Carrier-induced refractive index in quantum dot structures due to transitions from discrete quantum dot levels to continuum states

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 272-274

  Uskov, A V ^a,d   O'Reilly, E P ^a   McPeake, D ^a   Ledentsov, N N ^b,e   Bimberg, D ^b   Huyet, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BAND STRUCTURE; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CARRIER INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX; INTERBAND TRANSITION; OPTICAL TRANSITION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0842311701     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1639933     Document Type: Article

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